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Excited to welcome Anahita Sahu as our Chief of Staff! Having led bizops at early-stage startups like Almond FinTech and strategy at PayPal, Anahita joins us after recently graduating from Harvard. Fun Fact: Down the road, Anahita dreams of opening a farm-to-table café in Shillong, India. The Mintlify fam keeps growing 💚

It’s no fun to agonize over writing docs that end up collecting cobwebs. How do you create docs that developers actually want to read? We sat down with powerhouse technical writers from Meta, Salesforce, and Airbyte to collect their secrets for what makes best-in-class documentation. They cover topics such as: • Optimizing navigation for discrete problems, not casual browsing • Treating docs as a team sport to keep them fresh • Using code-based concepts like transclusion to minimize repetition and save time later Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/g9bgMu4G

We’re proud to be contributing 1% of all customer subscriptions to removing carbon from the atmosphere via Stripe

When your customers navigate from your landing page to your docs, they should not feel a stark difference in your branding. Today we’re launching custom fonts! Personalize the font of your docs to your own font hosted on a CDN or by choosing from Google fonts to match your docs with your brand.

Mastering the in’s and out’s of the SEO game is key for an effective GTM strategy. That’s why we invested in providing good SEO for our docs out-of-the-box. There is now a massive improvement in SEO and accessibility in docs pages across the board on both desktop and mobile. If you’re writing docs for your customers, they might as well rank well in the search engines so that they’re easily discoverable for prospective customers!

A good developer experience involves low latency and a snappy user experience. For majority of our customers this was the case, but as we grew we noticed that some of our customers were really pushing our product to its edges in terms of scale. This is why we decided to devote time to making sure customers of all sizes can experience speed. ◆ For large projects (~3,000 files), the download step for docs updates is now ~440x faster - a 99.8% time reduction. Across the board, file downloads during updates are now ~5.5x faster - an 81.8% time reduction. ◆ For API reference pages with complex data types, we have drastically reduced the size of the page. For customers with complex, recursive OpenAPI data types, this means a size reduction of up to 98%.